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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fa•ble /ˈfeɪbəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Literaturea short tale used to teach a moral lesson, often with animals as characters:Fables are found in many cultures, with different animals as the main characters.
- Literaturea story not based on fact, such as a myth or legend.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fa•ble (fā′bəl),USA pronunciation n., v., -bled, -bling. n. - Literaturea short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters;
apologue:the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables. - Literaturea story not founded on fact:This biography is largely a self-laudatory fable.
- Literaturea story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents;
legend:the fables of gods and heroes. - Literaturelegends or myths collectively:the heroes of Greek fable.
- Literaturean untruth;
falsehood:This boast of a cure is a medical fable. - Literaturethe plot of an epic, a dramatic poem, or a play.
- idle talk:old wives' fables.
v.i. - Literatureto tell or write fables.
- to speak falsely;
lie:to fable about one's past.
v.t. - to describe as if actually so;
talk about as if true:She is fabled to be the natural daughter of a king.
- Latin fābula a story, tale, equivalent. to fā(rī) to speak + -bula suffix of instrument
- Anglo-French, Old French
- Middle English fable, fabel, fabul 1250–1300
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See legend.
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